LECTURE AND BOOK SIGNING: L. Lloyd Stewart "The Mysterious Black Migration 1800-1820: The Van Vranken Family and Other 'Free' Families of African Descent in Washington County"

Local historian and author, L. Lloyd Stewart will discuss his book, "The Mysterious Black Migration 1800-1820: The Van Vranken Family and Other 'Free' Families of African Descent in Washington County."

Local historian and author, L. Lloyd Stewart, will relate the little known story of the mass migration of African Americans to Washington County during the early nineteenth century. Thousands of individuals of African descent came in search of opportunity and a better life in northern New York, but their experiences are largely absent from the historical record.

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